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During the third year of my degree, we were briefed on designing for the opera The Coronation of Poppea. The brief required that we reimagine this opera in a given historical context and to use red colour palette. My historical decade was the 1950's, and when contextualising this I due drew thematic similarities from relevant characters of the time. I chose the 1950's New York setting, with Emperor Nero being an infamous mob boss. For this historical make I decided to create Poppea's costume as seen in the above and below media